I'd like to speak in support of this motion.

We're talking not just about the CBSA and public safety but about a federal port. We know that the port of Montreal is a conduit for.... There are 5,800 containers in the port of Montreal and less than 1% are scanned.

I actually did an Order Paper question on this prior to Christmas, and the answer came back with exactly that: that less than 1% are scanned. They didn't specify how many automobiles they thought were being exported—stolen vehicles. They didn't know what that number was. The number they were able to retrieve, and that has been static year over year, was somewhere between 1,000 and 1,100.

Of the 105,000-plus vehicles that are stolen—a lot of that is happening now in the GTA and in southern Ontario—less than 1% are being retrieved at the Port of Montreal.

We know from those who have put Apple AirTags on their vehicles and traced them to the port.... In fact, I spoke with a constituent in the fall who was able to track the second vehicle that was stolen from their driveway to the port of Montreal.

That is a federal port, and that is a federal responsibility, as is the CBSA. In fact, in my own community this past weekend, there were two cars stolen at gunpoint. That's a very violent crime. In fact, there was another vehicle that was not stolen at that particular...that was targeted by a very sophisticated organized crime ring. It caused a lot of headlines. The local police are reporting that their hands are tied because this is something that's going on and being exported through a federal port.

I spoke to one of the neighbours, and this community is living in fear. In fact, it's a street that I lived on 20 years ago, so this is quite alarming, but it's not an isolated example. This is on top of.... It's a daily occurrence now, and it's often in the media locally—in Hamilton, in the greater Toronto area, in Niagara, in Kitchener-Waterloo and throughout southwestern Ontario. This is a problem, and I think we should bring in, as the motion calls for, CBSA officials and others to answer for this.

Dan Muys

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